An empty TexEdit window with a non-dirty buffer should just disappear upon close.

But I'm ready to learn otherwise from the HN commentariat.

In 2025 it's not possible to create an app and release it into the world and have it work for years or decades, as was once the case.

If your "developer certificate" for app stores and ad-hoc distribution is valid for a year, then every year you must pay a "developer program fee" to remain a participant. You need to renew that cert, and you need to recompile a new version within a year. Which means you must maintain a development environment and tools on an ongoing basis for an app that may be feature- and operationally-complete.

All this is completely unnecessary except when it comes to reinforcing hegemony of app-store monopolists.

Edit: OMG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDHe-PkOy8

Financial power is a bad proxy for military power.

Military power is ultimately a bad proxy for industrial power.

The linked article is about the clear decline of US industrial power.

Do you put him ahead of Neil Armstrong? History does, and always will, but I'm not sure that's a clear choice.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kranz

* Bartender Preferences...

* Advanced

* Uncheck "Check for Updates Automatically"

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SolarEclipse

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, enlightened minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss other people.

What you discuss is a choice.

The idea that everything presented here comes as builtins, or a call to a builtin repository, is actually fantastic. You’re forgiven for being jaded. But the attack on Wolfram for merely publishing this, including “with Wolfram” in the title, supposedly below your personal standards, is kind of whacked.

50-notes is insufficient for any serious trial of Evernote, and clearly insufficient if you're considering switching any non-trivial note pile to Evernote.

1. Accidental friendships

2. Friendships of the highest order

He separated Accidental friendships into two types:

* friendship of utility

* friendships of pleasure

So three kinds of friends, according to Aristotle.

I’m not interested in anybody’s guess. What happened? WTF actually happened?

The list is for people who don't want to be tracked by third parties. That's who we serve, and that's why we do what we do.

Based on this...

https://radar.com/pricing

... note the "tracked users" feature, unless I'm missing something, this isn't going to change.

In .NET culture, few developers share, fork, or communally develop code, and you sit around waiting for great Microsoft mother to deliver features. There is no ecosystem; there is one provider, and provider is beholden to a couple of guys and, beyond them, investment fund shareholders.

This might be fine if you are a very casual Github user with thin followings. But if you have interests in hundreds of projects, this is a disaster.

* Directionality matters because extraneous sounds in a home can be very distracting for listeners. For example, say the dishwasher is running. Or you answered a call before turning down the radio. Or a neighbor is mowing. Or, in a highrise, your balcony door is open.

* In conversation your semi-verbal cues like a tsk, a grunt, or an audible sigh can carry surprising weight. It's nice to know these can get through and convey how you feel without having to actually say it.

I consider my good microphone, mounted on an adjustable boom stand, complete with a pop-filter, along with some commonsense audio conveyance awareness, is my secret superpower.